Someone is supposed to be on fire watch during these burns.
It wouldn't have mattered. As is usual in the spring in New Mexico, high winds whipped the controlled burn out of control before anyone would have been able to do anything to stop it. The real tragedy is the winds were a known, forecasted factor but the USFS ignored the latest forecast. Even though they claim they had better information than our local weatherman did.
Probably wouldn’t have mattered.
You Wouldn’t believe how easily these kind of things that are supposed to be “controlled” get out of control.
Worked for CDF one summer at the Mormon Rocks Fire station.
One controlled burn quickly got out of control and we were left running for our lives down the firelanes that had been cut in the thick brush.
We barely escaped.
Someone is supposed to be on fire watch during these burns.
I’m certain that someone DID watch the fires. “Oh, now would you look at that!”